She was stunned. It was good, but he was going so far as to draw her as Neo-Queen Serenity!

That was... Well, unacceptable!

She turned to him. "Koro... It's good and all, but don't you think you should take it down a notch? I don't know who you're talking about when you say you know who I really am." she murmured.

"Liar." he said back. She flinched a little.

"Lay off her, Koro." Seiya hissed from behind them.

"You lay off, dick." Koro said, still coolly focusing his gaze straight ahead.

Serena looked at him with wide eyes. Seiya hissed, then reached over and smacked Koro on the back of the head.

Koro sighed, standing up. All eyes turned to him. Serena knew what was going to happen. She shook her head, mouthing at him. But if he saw, he ignored her. Koro turned to Seiya, who was still sitting calmly as if nothing had happened with a smirk on his face.

In the next instant, pandemonium erupted.

Koro flew at Seiya, knocking over the desk and a few chairs. Screams erupted around the room as people scrabbled back away from the two. Koro was on top of Seiya for the moment, but that was short-lived as Seiya put his knee in Koro's gut, badly winding him.

Serena stood at the edge of the room, watching uncertainly as the teacher ran for help. Now Seiya was on top of Koro, and they both had their hands around the other's neck. They were snarling insults and spitting retorts at each other, rolling over and over, knocking over desks and chairs, punching, and kicking. At one point, apparently tired of that charade, Koro bit down on Seiya's hand, making him yell and recoil sharply.

As the fighting got really violent, Taiki and Yaten intervened. They pulled the warring boys apart, but their grips were weak compared to the anger-motivated resistance of Koro and Seiya. Serena, feeling a little useless, joined the effort, trying to help Yaten restrain Koro. Another boy came to help them, and two were assisting Taiki. By that time the teacher had returned, along with the principal. Despite the presence of two authoritative figures, Koro and Seiya kept trying to tear away from their captors and rip the other apart.

"Koro! Calm down!" she gasped, straining to hold him. She could hear Taiki snapping at Seiya.

Then something happened.

Koro stopped trying to break their holds. They relaxed their grip a tiny bit, and his right arm slipped free. They made to tighten their grip again, but he wasn't struggling. His hand was over his mouth, and he was coughing terribly. Serena's eyes widened as she saw trickles of red escaping from his hand and down his neck. "Call a doctor! Quick!" she screamed, dropping to her knees. She put one hand on Koro's chest and the other on his back as he kept coughing and the red kept flowing down his neck.

Seiya, Yaten and Taiki seemed the most shocked of all, staring at Koro. "Don't just stare! Do something to help!" she cried desperately at them.

In almost no time, a doctor had been called and Koro was taken away. Everyone was silent after that. The room was put back to rights, belongings were sorted, and the lesson continued. Serena thought back to when she'd first met Koro, how he'd said that he'd come to Tokyo to be closer to his doctor. She wondered if this was why.

After school, she hurried to the hospital. At the desk, she inquired Koro's room.

"Sorry, ma'am, but Mr. Yuii is going to be undergoing an operation very soon." the receptionist said.

"Not so fast there..."

Serena turned around. A man with thinning gray hair stood there. "I'm Koro Yuii's doctor. He's refusing to be operated on unless he has an article with him. So the young lady has time to see him before we perform the operation." he nodded. "Follow me."

Serena followed the old man down the hallways to a closed door. When they opened it, Koro was sitting in the bed, an IV drip running to his arm. He looked like he'd been trying to stand. "Serena!" he smiled.

"Koro, are you okay? It's not serious, is it?" she worried.

"Just... a few banged up interns, that's all!" She got the feeling he was lying, but she nodded, going with him on it.

"Koro, we'll need to operate soon." the doctor said.

"No." the idol said firmly.

"What is it you want? I could probably get it for you." she offered. "I feel guilty, like that fight between you and-"

"Ix-nay, ix-nay!" "A fight, you say?"

Koro looked guilty himself now, and the doctor very stern. She got the feeling she shouldn't have said that. "Did I say something wrong?" she asked, feigning innocence.

"Koro is supposed to be peaceful towards his foes, not attacking them, and he knows that to be true. So, Koro, who was it you tried to maul this time?" the doctor asked.

"That bastard Seiya."

"Oh, well that's fine."

Serena's jaw dropped. The doctor had just said it was fine that Koro had attacked Seiya?!

"But, yeah, Serena, if you could run to my place and get it..." Koro opened up a drawer on the table next to his bed and fished out a key. "... It's in the foyer. Should be sitting on the coffee table." he instructed, handing it to her. "I live in the Full Moon apartment building, room seventy-five B on floor twenty. Got that?"

"Yeah. I won't be long!"

Serena ran out of the building. As she was going to cross the street, head-lights flared on her, and there was a screech of tires. She squealed, flinching.

"Woah! Where're you off to in such a hurry?"

"Amara! Michelle!" she realized. "I-I'm running an errand for one of the patients here!" she said quickly, not keen on mentioning Koro's name.

"Well, get in, we can take you!" Michelle smiled.

"Thanks! It's at the Full Moon apartment building!" she said as she got in the car.

"That's a fancy place! Who's it for?" Amara teased.

"Well... It's for Koro Yuii... He got in a fight with Seiya." she said uncomfortably.

"Bad enough to be in the hospital?" Michelle asked, sounding concerned.

"No... When we first met, he said he'd come here in the first place so to be closer to his doctor, so I think he had a problem that just got fired up by the fight."

"Koro Yuii... I don't exactly trust him." Amara said.

"You don't trust many people, do you?" Serena sighed.

"He appeared out of nowhere. There're no records of birth, medical records past the last two months... He's not who he says he is." Amara explained.

Soon enough, they'd reached the building. Serena ran in and found the elevator. No one else was in it, so she went straight to the twentieth floor. The room was all the way down the hall.

Opening it, she got a shock.

Pictures of Neo-Queen Serenity adorned the place like precious gems. But that wasn't what shocked her.

One the coffee table, next to a beat-up teddy bear, was a picture of Sailor Star Fighter!